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Sixty Years of California Song

by Margaret Blake Alverson

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Dedication
  3. 3Foreword
  4. 4Chapter One — Antecedents and Childhood
  5. 5Chapter Two — Our Trip to California Via the Isthmus, and Early Day…
  6. 6Chapter Three — Stockton in the Fifties. Benicia Seminary. Genesis…
  7. 7Chapter Four — How I Made the First Bear Flag in California
  8. 8Chapter Five — Boston. Dedham Choir, 1858. The Civil War. Famous Mu…
  9. 9Chapter Six — Santa Cruz in the Sixties. Why I Became a Dressmaker.…
  10. 10Chapter Seven — Lady of Lyons Given at Santa Cruz. Flag-Raising at…
  11. 11Chapter Eight — On the Road With Dick Kohler, Mr. Vivian, Walter Ca…
  12. 12Chapter Nine — Early Music and Music Houses. Musical Instrument Mak…
  13. 13Chapter Ten — As a Church Choir Singer. Barnabee, Zerrahn, Patti, J…
  14. 14Chapter Eleven — Golden Jubilee of Song Service, June 12, 1896
  15. 15Chapter Twelve — Camilla Urso’s Festival, 1873. Madame Anna Bishop.…
  16. 16Chapter Thirteen — Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and Jewish Music. J.H…
  17. 17Chapter Fourteen — Great Musical Festival in Aid of the Mercantile…
  18. 18Chapter Fifteen — Authors’ Carnival, 1880, President Hayes and Gene…
  19. 19Chapter Sixteen — Vacation Episodes at Deer Park, July 4, 1893
  20. 20Chapter Seventeen — In Oakland. Sad Accident. Brush and Easel. Kind…
  21. 21Chapter Eighteen — Party at Dr. J.M. Shannon’s Home in 1907
  22. 22Chapter Nineteen — Lee Tung Foo
  23. 23Chapter Twenty — What I Know of the Voice and of Teaching
  24. 24Chapter Twenty-One — Tremolo
  25. 25Chapter Twenty-Two — More About the Voice
  26. 26Chapter Twenty-Three — Political Campaigning. Work as a Patriot. Gr…
  27. 27Chapter Twenty-Four — Repertoire and Other Data. Musicians and Sing…
  28. 28Chapter Twenty-Five — Early California Reminiscences of Musicians a…
  29. 29Chapter Twenty-Six — Reminiscences of Later California Musicians an…
  30. 30Chapter Twenty-Seven — With My Pupils
  31. 31Chapter Twenty-Eight — A List of My Pupils

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